[Sidenote:  With a plural noun.]

     There was also a fundamental difference of opinion as to whether
     the earliest cleavage was between the Northern and the
     Southern languages.—­TAYLOR, Origin of the Aryans.

434.  The same repetition of the article is sometimes found before nouns alone, to distinguish clearly, or to emphasize the meaning; as,—­

     In every line of the Philip and the Saul, the greatest poems,
     I think, of the eighteenth century.—­MACAULAY.

     He is master of the two-fold Logos, the thought and the word,
     distinct, but inseparable from each other.—­NEWMAN.

     The flowers, and the presents, and the trunks and bonnet
     boxes ... having been arranged, the hour of parting
     came.—­THACKERAY.

[Sidenote:  The not repeated.  One object and several modifiers, with a singular noun.]

435.  Frequently, however, the article is not repeated before each of two or more adjectives, as in Sec. 433, but is used with one only; as,—­

     Or fanciest thou the red and yellow Clothes-screen yonder is
     but of To-day, without a Yesterday or a To-morrow?—­CARLYLE.

     The lofty, melodious, and flexible language.—­SCOTT.

     The fairest and most loving wife in Greece.—­TENNYSON.

[Sidenote:  Meaning same as in Sec. 433, with a plural noun.]

     Neither can there be a much greater resemblance between the
     ancient and modern general views of the
     town.—­HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS.

     At Talavera the English and French troops for a moment
     suspended their conflict.—­MACAULAY.

     The Crusades brought to the rising commonwealths of the Adriatic
     and Tyrrhene seas a large increase of wealth.—­Id.

     Here the youth of both sexes, of the higher and middling
     orders, were placed at a very tender age.—­PRESCOTT.

[Sidenote:  Indefinite article.]

436.  The indefinite article is used, like the definite article, to limit two or more modified nouns, only one of which is expressed.  The article is repeated for the purpose of separating or emphasizing the modified nouns.  Examples of this use are,—­

     We shall live a better and a higher and a nobler
     life.—­BEECHER.

     The difference between the products of a well-disciplined and
     those of an uncultivated understanding is often and admirably
     exhibited by our great dramatist.—­S.T.  COLERIDGE.

     Let us suppose that the pillars succeed each other, a round and
     a square one alternately.—­BURKE.

     As if the difference between an accurate and an inaccurate
     statement was not worth the trouble of looking into the most
     common book of reference.—­MACAULAY.